Alberta Diary: By-election watch: Calgary Centre Grits hope to benefit from...
Justin Trudeau passes through the Calgary Centre riding, as seen by the media. Actual Liberal Party of Canada leadership candidates may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Conservative Party...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Remember where you heard it first: foundering B.C. premier...
Your blogger, looking rather stout and unkempt, with political strategist Stephen Carter, who popped up in British Columbia yesterday to try to work his come-from-behind magic for B.C. Premier Christy...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Calgary-Centre By-Election: Accusations and...
TweetThe by-election in Calgary-Centre is in full-swing with accusations and high-profile becoming a distinguishing characteristic of the campaign in advance of the November 26 vote. 1CalgaryCentre,...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: IT’S A RACE! New poll shows emerging...
TweetA new survey conducted by Forum Research shows a three-way race in the Calgary-Centre by-election between Conservative Joan Crockatt, Liberal Harvey Locke, and Green Chris Turner. As reported by...
View ArticleCalgary Grit: Liberal Heartland Calgary
Wednesday was not a typical day for Calgary Grits. While leadership candidates must all fly into town, knowing the party’s weighted-by-riding leadership system makes a vote there far more valuable than...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: IT’S STILL A RACE! With one week left, a...
TweetWith one week left until voting day, a new survey released by Forum Research continues to show a three-way race in the Calgary-Centre by-election between Conservative Joan Crockatt, Liberal Harvey...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Latest Calgary poll results – perhaps aided by party’s...
Calgary Centre Greens get ready to surf the Green Wave, expected momentarily. Actual Green Party supporters may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Chris Turner, Joan Crockatt and Naheed Nenshi. The...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Guest Post: Yes, Calgary-Centre Can Elect a...
TweetBy Jeremy Barretto Like anyone who arrived in Calgary Centre after 1968, I’ve never witnessed a Liberal, NDP or Green candidate win an election. It’s understandable that some progressives feel...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Will Calgarians surprise the nation in...
TweetVoters in Calgary-Centre will mark their ballots tomorrow in what has become a unexpected hotly contested by-election in the centre of Alberta’s largest city. The race should have been a cake-walk...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Joan Crockatt wins close race in...
TweetIt was an exciting race for the history books! Conservative Joan Crockatt has narrowly defeated her opponents to win the federal by-election in Calgary-Centre. At 10:30pm with 241 of 263 polls...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Preston Manning’s well-funded ideological hobbyhorse takes aim...
Calgary City Hall: The next target for former Reform Party leader Preston Manning’s not-very-merry band of far-right ideologues? Below: Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and neoconservative ideological guru...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: What to expect in the spring sitting? Dirt,...
TweetAfter a three-month break, Members of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly will gather today in Edmonton to start the spring sitting. The commencement of this year’s first sitting will be unusual in...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Rural Albertans supporting lazy high-rise...
TweetFresh from a war of words with popular Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths responded the a question from Edmonton-Centre MLA Laurie Blakeman with this poorly...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Alberta still needs a “city party” – a role the New Democratic...
Typical Alberta Progressive Conservative Party members. Or, wait, are those Wildrose members? Alberta’s rural elite may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Doug...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Preston Manning’s libertarian manifesto for...
TweetNot satisfied with their conquests of the provincial and federal levels of government, the right-wing activists behind the Manning Centre for Building Democracy are expanding their political...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Can Stephen Mandel save Alberta’s Tories...
TweetFacing internal strife after a rough spring of budget cuts and deflating bitumen bubbles, Premier Alison Redford is desperately searching for political wins that will win-over Albertans in advance...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Fake tuition freeze flops after Redford’s...
Tweet“We’ve been very clear that we will not be balancing the budget on the backs of students,” Premier Alison Redford told the media at a press conference yesterday. This statement is only partially...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Is Chuck Strahl’s dual role on the Manning Centre and security...
Chuck Strahl listens to a participant in the Manning Centre conference in Ottawa in March. Below: Manning Centre founder and figurehead, Preston Manning. Should Chuck Strahl be able to serve...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Tories versus Wildrose: Year One in...
TweetOn April 23, 2012, Alberta’s most hotly contested election in decades culminated with the re-election of the twelfth consecutive Progressive Conservative majority government since 1971. Despite...
View Articledaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Sprawl Cabal of wealthy developers plot to...
TweetA video leaked to Global Calgary showing a large group of prominent wealthy developers plotting to stack Calgary City Council with sympathetic candidates is making waves in Alberta’s largest city....
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